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ROSALIA – David Castanon, 19, was booked into Whitman County Jail June 7 after allegedly fighting with and then restraining his girlfriend from leaving his home. Whitman County Sheriff's deputies responded to a call of domestic dispute at about 5 a.m. in Rosalia. The reporting party stated Castanon was his grandson and was fighting outside with his girlfriend. According to the police report, when officers arrived on scene, they could hear a female in the basement of the house yelling "No" and "Stop it" repeatedly. Deputies found Castanon on t...
The Johnson Fourth of July Parade has been canceled. For the first time since the impromptu event began with a group of Druffel siblings in 1967, there will be no parade – which has grown to attract thousands of spectators to the route from the Grange Hall past a row of houses to the old Johnson-Union Warehouse. “For health reasons, it's just not a safe thing to be responsible for,” said Kathy Wolf, one of the original siblings. Family members talked with Johnson residents and Whitman Count...
Ladder 3 was placed into service June 2 after the firefighters "pushed" the truck into its new home at the Colfax station. The Colfax Fire Department took delivery of the "new" ladder truck to replace its 1979 model which was needing repair and becoming less safe with each passing year. The city council approved the purchase last month after approximately one and a half years of searching, studying and at times patiently waiting for the right one to come along. "This is a huge step forward for...
Springs found on the dirt hills of the Almota Road project last week slowed down the ahead-of-schedule road-expansion as heavy equipment works in mud, hauling and placing basalt rock to form the base of the widened road. “The hill just starts weeping with all this water,” said Mark Storey, Public Works director. “Makes it hard to build.” Giant bulldozers and scrapers were removing dirt, replacing it with shot rock – basalt rock blasted from a nearby quarry. Because of the springs, M.A. DeAt...
PULLMAN – The National Lentil Festival is postponing its 2020 celebration to August 20-21, 2021. The Pullman Chamber of Commerce announced the move June 1, citing concern for the health and safety of the community. "This postponement has allowed us to be creative and find ways to carry on traditions for 2020. We are working through the details of a new format of Legendary Lentil Cook-off. We will be contacting individuals who have submitted recipes with updated format rules by June 15," s...
A new medical treatment office will open in Colfax this week, following an open house Thursday for Northwest Neurological TMS. The Spokane-based practice, operated by Dr. David Greeley, will offer transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) treatments for depression. “We opened a location in Colfax because the need is there,” said Todd Kinsel, practice administrator. The non-invasive treatment was FDA-approved in 2008. “It basically re-boots neurons to talk to each other again,” said Kinsel,...
WAWAWAI – Six people were injured in a two-car collision June 7 near Wawawai Landing. Whitman County Deputies and EMS from Fire District 14 and Lewiston Fire responded about 4 p.m. to the incident. According to the Sheriff's office, deputies believe the accident occurred when a westbound vehicle with two occupants attempted to make a left turn into Wawawi Landing. At that same time a separate vehicle with four occupants, also traveling westbound, attempted to pass the turning vehicle. All four of the occupants in the passing vehicle were i...
PULLMAN–Brad Rost, 26, Lewiston, was booked unto Whitman County Jail June 7 after allegedly attacking a Pullman Police Officer who was giving him a ticket for littering. According to the police report, Pullman Officer Breauna Banks saw Rost throw a fountain drink at a moving car on Grand Ave. Officer Banks noted in the report she had past interactions with Rost, including on her last shift when he was verbally hostile to her afterward. Officer Banks turned around in her police car and saw Rost throw a fast food bag and wrapper into the s...
UNIONTOWN – A man was booked into Whitman County Jail May 31 after reaching speeds of nearly 100 miles per hour south of Uniontown. According to the police report, Whitman County Sheriff's Deputy Tyler Langerveld was at a traffic stop just outside Uniontown when he heard a vehicle with a modified exhaust accelerating. The white truck appeared to be surpassing the town's 30 mph limit. When it passes Deptuty Langerveld, he observed it still had on studded tires and the driver and a passenger were not wearing seat belts. Deputy Langerveld p...
COLFAX – Colfax Fire and Police responded June 2 to a report of a wildland fire past the city's sewer treatment plant. According to Fire Chief Craig Corbeill, a pile of brush being burned by the city public works department got away while burning a pile of juniper. The fire spread up hill, burning approximately one acre. Whitman Fire District 11 responded from Colfax, Diamond, Steptoe and Albion. The 13 firefighters attacked the fires from the city access road and above via the Harris Ranch on Green Hollow Road. One small, unused structure w...
PULLMAN – A man called Pullman Police about 1:30 a.m. June 4, threatening to go to the police department to arrest officers and spray paint flowers on the station. The man has a history of interaction with the police and it is not believed that his threats were linked to current protests. The threats were not fulfilled....
Trayte, David, for negligent driving first degree. Sentenced to 90 days with 89 suspended. Ordered to pay fines and fees of $843. Leighton, Preston, for physical control with BAC .14. Sentenced to 364 days in jail with 363 suspended. Ordered to pay fines and fees of $1,893. Miller, Zane, for assault 4th degree. Sentenced to 180 days in jail with 175 suspended. Ordered to pay fines and fees of $1,580. Sandoval, Dylan, for driving under the influence with BAC .17. Sentenced to 354 days in jail with 362 suspended. Ordered to pay fines and fees of...
COLFAX – Colfax Police Department will receive $250,000 from a Department of Justice grant to hire two new police officers. The DOJ announced nearly $400 million in grant funding this week through the Department's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) COPS Hiring Program (CHP). The COPS Hiring Program is a competitive award program intended to reduce crime and advance public safety through community policing by providing direct funding for the hiring of career law enforcement officers. Funding through this program had b...
Many people have asked-whether directly or secondhand-about the page count at the Gazette since the virus hit. It all boils down to business practices, the bottom line and trying to keep our heads above water during what the economists have officially deemed a recession. In newspapers there is ad hole and news hole. For the majority of newspapers, the size of the news hole--the space we get to fill with stories, features, records, etc.-is determined by the ad hole-how much space is taken up by...
I sincerely hope I misread or misunderstood Nancy Street’s letter to the editor last week. She used three underlying premisses that hopefully she didn’t intend, or if she did, to which I strongly object. The first is that people “of European ancestry” (her term not mine) can’t or don’t feel enough outrage at the murder of George Floyd. Every one I have talked to about this murder is over the top outraged, regardless of “ancestry”. I think that charge is akin to someone saying that if you don’t live in New York you can’t feel enough outrage...
Fight, Flight, and Freeze are the three biological responses to danger. There doesn't even have to be a real danger. If your nose smells danger, then your body is going to come out fighting, fleeing, or freezing. Body's choice. The survival instinct takes over the mind and the body. Even after extensive training, professionals can still find their bodies reacting differently than planned. Fight, Flight, or Freeze, do not reflect moral values. That's just biology, that's all it is. Moral values are displayed in what you do afterward, when...